A Question of Paternity
My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
“Tereshchuk’s quest for truth, about both his immediate family and the stories he’s covered around the world, resonates through the pages of A Question of Paternity, an exceptional memoir at once moving, shocking, and heroic.”
—CARL BERNSTEIN
Investigative journalist and author of Chasing History & All the President’s Men
David Tereshchuk leapt from an unpromising childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV journalist, first in London, then New York.
During his working life, he has managed to extract revealing answers from tyrants and the oppressed, but never managed to coax his mother into admitting who his father was, even after her revelation to him, when he was in his 50s, that she had been raped, aged 15, by a priest.
Alongside his career, the search for his mother’s abuser has haunted him, adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity.
This is his astonishing story.
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